$PCP_PMCDCONF_PATH
default configuration file
$PCP_PMCDCONF_PATH.access
optional access control specification file
$PCP_PMCDOPTIONS_PATH
command line options to pmcd when launched from
$PCP_RC_DIR/pmcd All the command line option lines should
start with a hyphen as the first character.
$PCP_SYSCONFIG_DIR/pmcd
Environment variables that will be set when pmcd executes.
Only settings of the form "PMCD_VARIABLE=value" or
"PCP_VARIABLE=value" are honoured.
$PCP_SYSCONF_DIR/labels.conf
settings related to labels used globally throughout the
PMCS.
$PCP_SYSCONF_DIR/labels
directory of files containing the global metric labels that
will be set for every client context created by pmcd. File
names starting with a ``.'' are ignored, and files ending in
``.json'' are ``JSONB'' formatted name:value pairs. The
merged set can be queried via the pmcd.labels metric.
Context labels are applied universally to all metrics.
$PCP_SYSCONF_DIR/labels/optional
directory of files containing the global metric labels that
will be set for every client context created by pmcd, but
which are flagged as optional. These labels are exactly the
same as other context labels except that they are not used
in time series identifier calculations.
./pmcd.log
(or $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd/pmcd.log when started automatically)
All messages and diagnostics are directed here.
$PCP_RUN_DIR/pmcd.pid
contains an ascii decimal representation of the process ID
of pmcd, when it's running.
/etc/pki/nssdb
default Network Security Services (NSS) certificate database
directory, used for optional Secure Socket Layer
connections. This database can be created and queried using
the NSS certutil tool, amongst others.
/etc/passwd
user names, user identifiers and primary group identifiers,
used for access control specifications
/etc/groups
group names, group identifiers and group members, used for
access control specifications
